At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 10,275,500 shares in 791 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 319,852,700.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Monday, January 27), today’s data shows 4% decline in volume, 19% decline in turnover, and 12% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.45 trillion.
In the aggregate, 47 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 16 ✅gainers and 16 ?losers.
Nairobi Business Ventures [NBV] led the gainers with ✅8.57% share price appreciation closing at KES 0.76 per share, followed by:
✅Car and General (Kenya) Plc [CGEN] (+8.33%)
✅Trans Century Plc [TCL] (+8.23%)
✅Carbacid Investments Plc [CARB] (+7.4%).
On the losing side, Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?6.00% closing at KES 0.47 per share, followed by:
?Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (-2.75%)
?Safaricom Plc [SCOM] (-2.44%)
?Umeme Limited [UMME] (-2.44%).
Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] recorded the highest volume of 3.3 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Co-operative Bank of Kenya Plc [COOP] (2.24m)
➖Safaricom Plc [SCOM] (1.57m)
➖Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (520,200).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] dropped ?1.94 points to close at 161.32
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped ?2.01 points to close at 2630.47
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped ?25.78 points to close at 4021.20
The Derivatives Market closed the day with Two Equity contracts worth Kes.102,000 expiring in 19th March 2020, traded at Kes. 51.00 in today’s trading session, a decline from yesterday’s 4 contracts, valued at Kes. 125,300 traded.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE had 45 deals worth Kes 1.36 Billion, a slight decline in value and deals on the Fixed income segment as compared to yesterday’s 67 deals valued at Kes 1.40 Billion
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room.
